Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large‐scale carbon removal in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative emissions, is suggestive of novel opportunities, risks, and challenges in addressing climate change, but tends to build on the narrow techno‐economic framings that characterize integrated assessment modeling. While the discussion on negative emissions bears important parallels to a wider and older literature on carbon sequestration and carbon sinks, this earlier scholarship—particularly from the critical social sciences—is seldom engaged with by the negative emissions research community. In this article, we survey this “long history” of carbon removal and seek to draw out lessons for ongoing research and the emerging public debate on negative emissions. We argue that research and policy on negative emissions should proceed not just from projections of the future, but also from an acknowledgement of past controversies, successes and failures. In particular, our review calls attention to the irreducibly political character of carbon removal imaginaries and accounting practices and urges acknowledgement of past experiences with the implementation of (small‐scale) carbon sequestration projects. Our review in this way highlights the importance of seeing continuity in the carbon removal discussion and calls for more engagement with existing social science scholarship on the subject. Acknowledging continuity and embracing an interdisciplinary research agenda on carbon removal are important aspects in making climate change mitigation research more responsible, and a precondition to avoid repeating past mistakes and failures.

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负排放和碳清除的悠久历史

IPCC最近的评估强调了大规模脱碳在实现《巴黎协定》目标方面的关键作用。对清除的关注（也称为负排放）暗示了应对气候变化的新机遇，新风险和新挑战，但往往建立在表征综合评估模型的狭窄技术经济框架的基础上。尽管有关负排放的讨论与关于碳固存和碳汇的更广泛，更古老的文献具有重要的相似之处，但较早的奖学金（特别是来自关键的社会科学领域的奖学金）很少与负排放研究界联系。在本文中，我们调查了碳清除的“悠久历史”，并试图为正在进行的研究和有关负排放的新兴公众辩论吸取教训。我们认为，有关负排放的研究和政策不仅应从对未来的预测出发，而且还应从对过去争议，成功和失败的认识中进行。尤其是，我们的审查提请注意碳清除假想和会计惯例的不可推卸的政治特征，并敦促承认实施（小规模）碳封存项目的过去经验。通过这种方式，我们的评论突出了在碳清除讨论中保持连续性的重要性，并呼吁与该主题的现有社会科学奖学金进行更多的接触。承认连续性并接受跨学科的碳清除研究议程是使减缓气候变化研究更具责任感的重要方面，